Sample files

You can find a small set of sample files, which you can use for your own tests, located inside the folder “Common\Samples” (a subfolder of your application main installation folder).

• Click on the “Show Palette” button to open the Spatial Manager palette, which includes the main functions of Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD.
  • If you cannot or you do not want to access the ribbon, key in “SPM” in the command line to open the palette.
  • Problems with the AutoCAD ribbon? Review the troubleshooting section.
• Expand the “Sample data” shortcut to access the sample files (grouped by format).
• Right-click over any file to import the spatial information as AutoCAD objects into the current drawing or into a new drawing.
• Use the default parameters in all wizard steps.
• Check the imported AutoCAD objects.
  • Note for the Trial version users: Take a look at the application Limitations in this Version.
• Import more files into the same drawing or into new drawings while choosing different import options.
• Try to import other kinds of spatial files such as Google Earth KML, GPS/GPX, SQLite, or XYZ point files.
  • Note about Coordinate Reference Systems (CRS): If you want to merge into the same drawing spatial data that has been saved using different CRSs, you need to transform the coordinates of the incoming data so that they are consistent with each other. This can help you learn how coordinate transformation works in the application. In the sample data set, the Shapefiles (SHP) and the SQLite and XYZ files were saved using the CRS “WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator” (SRID=3857), and the KML and GPX files were saved using the CRS “WGS 84” (SRID=4326) (mandatory for these formats).

The Sample data folder (and subfolders) is a read-only folder, so select another folder when trying to write data through export processes, etc.